- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:25:13 +0000
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>
- CC: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, "liam@w3.org" <liam@w3.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
[John Hudson:] > > On 09/05/12 3:11 PM, Christopher Slye wrote: > > > John, to what misunderstanding are you referring? It looks to me like > > ordinal é turns up in the real world often enough. -Christopher > > [Note typo in my original message: it should be è not é] > > Ordinal è shows up when people write première as 1ère, but that is an > error, and the correct ordinal abbreviation of première is 1re. > > The standard French ordinal is e -- e.g. 2e, 3e. 4e, etc. -- except for > the singular in which one needs to distinguish masculine premier and > feminine première, which are respectively 1er and 1re. > If by standard you mean 'what people *should* do', sure. In practice the use of è remains common e.g. run a web search for "2ème".
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